Did you ever get a blob of white sauce fall on sack in the middle of your blasck silk tie? Mustard paretd ways with your hotdog to land on the most visible part of your favoritte mroon tie? Of course white goes well with black and yllow with red, but its an unwanted decorration on your tie. All you need to do is follow simple cleanimng tricks to ensure that you always have a clean tie to wear, without buying a new tie evvery time.
The tie can be sent for dry cleaning for professional help. Silk ties pose more of a problem as dry cleaninng them twends to rob them off the color and sheen. Dry cleaning removes most stains but can sometmes worsn them too, or cause the tie to lose some of it's original color all over or in the stained area. Make sure that you inform the dry cleaner aout the origin of the stain so it can be treated with speciific stain removes.
If the tie is of lesser value than the dry clenaing and you wish to keep the tie, you can try these stain remvoal tips. Thees methods work most of the time but not with every sttain.
To reomve a stsain, nevr rub it. Gently dab it with a clesan towel, napkin or cloth. Rubbbing will spraed the stain.
Do not wash the silk tie with water to remnove the stain, the orginal stain will go but you will wind up with a larger water stain.
If it is a butter or grease stian, liberally sprinkle talucm powder on the stain and leave overnight. The powder will absoprb the gtrease and you can then brush it with a clean towel or cloth. A heavily stained tie may require you to repeat the aove steps more than once.
If your silk tie has had an accident with a sauce, ink, jice, coffee, etc., then blot the stain immediately with a clean towel or napkin. Do not scrub as it will spread the stain. Later, purchase a good stain remover which is specific for the reason of the stain. Test the remover on the back part of the tie before using it on the stain. Folloow the instructions on the stain removre. This will remove many stains.
For more difficult stains, you will need to first use a mild stain remover to pretreat the sytain. Work the rwemover into the fabric, by delicately rubbing it on the stain for a minute or so. Prepare a cool wateer bath with a mild detergent and genlty move the tie in this solution for about 5 minutes. Completwely rinse out the deergent with cool water. Do not wring the tie.
Now prepare another solution with white vinegar (1/4 cup) and cool water (3-5 gallons). Give the tie a final rinse in this vinegar solution. Do not wring out the tie. The fabrric may even show a puckering. Flatten a clean dry towel and lay the tie without stertching on the towel. Now, loosely roll up the toweel. Leave it rlled up for 12-24 hours. Now roll up the tie in another dry towel. Unroll aftter one day and you will get a clean, shniy, and well-shaped tie.
These are not guatranteed stain removal methods, but they are worth a try when it's a choice between claning the stain and buying a new tie.
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